Skip to content

Productivity

Company standards

Every workshop has rules nobody writes down: prongs never under 0.9 mm in platinum, engagement rings in 18k white gold unless the customer asks, a 1.2 mm minimum wall on every shank. Company standards is where you write them down once, in plain language, so the Assistant follows them every time it builds or changes a design — and tells you when one of them decided a value.

Where they live

  • Options → Artisan → Assistant → Company standards — an editor right in the Options window, with Open in text editor and Open folder next to it; see Assistant options.
  • The Company standards button in the Assistant panel opens the same file in your text editor.

It is a plain text file, standards.md, in the Assistant folder of your RhinoArtisan user folder. The first time, it starts from a template whose comments explain what to write; the comments are ignored.

What to write

Short rules in your own words, grouped however suits you:

## Metals
- Engagement rings: 18k white gold unless the customer asks otherwise.

## Settings
- Prongs: 0.9 mm minimum in gold, 1 mm in platinum.
- Bezels: 0.8 mm walls.

## Shanks
- Minimum shank thickness: 1.2 mm.

Numbers for a single element — your usual bezel height, your favourite basket — are better saved as that command’s defaults: the Assistant’s tools already start from your saved defaults, so there is no need to repeat them here. Standards are for the rules that cut across elements, and for the reasons behind them.

The Assistant reads up to 6,000 characters of standards. Keep them to the rules that matter.

What the Assistant does with them

  • When it builds, changes or reasons about a design, the standards go along with your request, and the Assistant follows them unless your message asks for something else.
  • It tells you when a standard decided a value, so you know where a number came from.
  • It flags a standard it can’t apply with the tools at hand, instead of skipping it in silence.
  • Questions about how to use RhinoArtisan don’t carry the standards: they wouldn’t change the answer and would only cost tokens.

”Remember that…”

You can also add a standard from the chat. Write “remember that in platinum we always use 1 mm prongs” and the Assistant turns it into one clear rule and shows it to you with Apply and Cancel — even in Auto mode, because it will shape every design from then on. Apply adds it as a new line at the end of the file; a rule that is already there isn’t added twice.

Other AI apps

AI apps connected through RhinoArtisan MCP — Claude, ChatGPT and the rest — read the same standards with the get_company_standards tool, so a design built from Claude follows the same rules as one built in the panel.